I think there was a timeline about it: Brittons Triumphant, or something like that, but I can not find it.
Not when there isn't any strong kingdoms, just post- Roman semi tribal petty kingdoms all busy fighting each other and trying to keep the Picts and Gaels out.Shouldn't England be harder to invade? Does the English Channel do nothing for them here?
Shouldn't England be harder to invade? Does the English Channel do nothing for them here?
The Angles and Saxons came in from the North Sea. It's not like it was impossible for the Normans or Dutch to make the crossing of the English Channel.
And correct me if I'm wrong, the Britonic kingdoms, if we can give them that much status, never had much of a navy to guard that moat.
And correct me if I'm wrong, the Britonic kingdoms, if we can give them that much status, never had much of a navy to guard that moat.
Of course not. I don't disagree with you.
Immortalimpi said:The only structures that were used to protect against the mainlanders were a series of fortresses around Kent and East Angolia constructed in Roman times. These went into disrepair after Honorious left Britain.
Bad combination.
Would those forts on the Saxon Shore being maintained have been enough to do any good, or would the Saxons have just bypassed them?
They were divided into hundreds of sub-kingdoms and spent more time fighting each other than the Germanic invaders. The Romano-British were pretty much pathetic when it came to fighting - it says a lot when the Germanic invaders poured in as soon as the Roman soldiers and administrators withdrew from the island and left the defenses to the locals. The Plague of Justinian just made the entire conquest a whole lot quicker.